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Tracking King Kong : a Hollywood icon in world culture / Cynthia Erb.

Title
Tracking King Kong : a Hollywood icon in world culture / Cynthia Erb.
Author
Erb, Cynthia Marie.
Publication
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2009.

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Description
xix, 315 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Uniform Title
  • Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
  • Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • King Kong (Fictitious character)
  • King Kong (Motion picture : 1933)
  • King Kong films > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-299) and index.
  • Includes filmography: p. 287-288.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A showman's dream : the production and release of King Kong -- Camera adventure, dangerous contact : documentaries and genre traditions behind King Kong -- Monstrous returns in the postwar context : Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla -- Gorilla queen and other tales : male spectatorship and the King Kong parodies -- King Kong's melancholy : a reading of Peter Jackson's King Kong.
ISBN
  • 9780814334300 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 081433430X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008037698
OCLC
244566813
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library